This election and nomination process is limited to those individuals who have committer rights on one or more OpenDaylight Projects. Any OpenDaylight Committer can nominate themselves, run for election, and vote in the election for the Committer-At-Large seats on the TSC. Details on the election process may be found here.
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Statement of Intent
Abhijit K
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Biography
Abhijit is the current TSC Chair for OpenDaylight. As the OpenDaylight TSC Chair, he has presented OpenDaylight at various conferences including ONS, North America, ONS Europe and Linux Foundation's OSN Networking Day in the Bay Area. He was the project lead for the OpenDaylight OpenFlow plugin project since its inception till the start of the Oxygen release as well as a committer on the TTP project. He was elected to the TSC in both the 2016 and the 2017 committer-at-large TSC elections. During the 2017 TSC term - he came up with and evangelized the idea of calendar based ODL release schedules which is now being implemented in Oxygen and beyond. He is technical lead for Ericsson OpenDaylight efforts and works in the Technology department for Ericsson's SDN unit. In the past he had been an active member of the Forwarding Abstractions Workgroup (FAWG) at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and has contributed to and evangelized the main example table type pattern at the FAWG meetings/ONF member workdays. He has around 20 years of experience in networking software development as well as leading teams toward successful outcomes. Prior to joining Ericsson he led a 100+ person software development team at Blade Network Technologies into a successful integration into IBM via acquisition. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.
Statement of Intent
As a member of the TSC, Abhijit is intending to drive the following issues:
- Improved usability & consumability of OpenDaylight
- Improved user as well as developer level documentation
- Focus by the TSC to improve the ease of new developer / user on-boarding
- API stability across releases and supporting design practices
- Maintain good release cycles and processes for the ODL simultaneous releases
- Apply his experiences as the OpenFlow Plugin project lead to facilitate discussions on how to introduce & handle major design changes in key projects with multiple dependencies.